Awards spotlight.Taylor and Pinkney win 2002 Coretta Scott King Awards Congratulations to Mildred Taylor and Jerry Pinkney, winners of the 2002 Coretta Scott King Awards, presented by the American Library Association American Library Association, founded 1876, organization whose purpose is to increase the usefulness of books through the improvement and extension of library services. . Taylor won for The Land, the prequel to her 1977 Newberry Award-winning young adult novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1976 children's novel written by Mildred D. Taylor. It tells the story of a land-owning African American family living in a rural area of Mississippi during the 1930s, and how they subsequently cope with mounting white oppression and racism . Pinkney won for his illustrations for Goin' Someplace Special, written by Patricia McKissack. BCALA BCALA Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award Winners The Black Caucus of the American Library Association announced the winners of its 2002 BCALA Awards for Excellence in adult fiction and nonfiction, first novelist and outstanding contribution to publishing. The awards were presented for books published in 2001. Fiction Winner I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage (William Morrow) Nonfiction Winner Vernon Can Read! A Memoir by Vernon Jordan with Annette Gordon-Reed (Public Affairs) First Novelist Winner David Anthony Durham David Anthony Durham has thus far built his reputation as an historical novelist. His first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. (Gabriel's Story) Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Donald Bogle (Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television) Fiction Honor Books John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) Plain Brown Wrapper by Karen Grigsby Bates (Avon) West of Rehoboth by Alexs D. Pate (William Morrow) Nonfiction Honor Books On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles (Scribner) Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love by John Edgar Wideman John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, in Washington, DC) is an American writer. Early life Wideman grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and much of his writing is set there, especially in the Homewood neighborhood of the East End. (Houghton Mifflin) American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Lumet Buckley (Random House) For NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Image Award winners for outstanding literary work, visit www.bibookreview.com |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion